This article was originally written for “Filming in Argentina“, a blog dedicated to Argentine cinema created by San Telmo Productions a film & TV production company in Buenos Aires that provides services and original content to international clients. In an unprecedented turn of events for Argentine cinema, this month’s...

Spanish Horror movies have been very popular around the world in the last decade. The following list is a selection of the most voted Spanish Horror movies fromIMDB. Is your favorite horror movie on the list? (2007) ² (2009) El espinazo del diablo (2001) ³ Génesis (2012) Los ojos...

Carandiru is a 2003 Brazilian and Argentine film directed by Hector Babenco. It is based on the book Estação Carandiru (English: Carandiru Station) by Dr. Drauzio Varella, a physician and AIDS specialist, who is portrayed in the film by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos. Carandiru tells some of the stories that occurred in Carandiru Penitentiary, which was the biggest prison...

XXY, is a movie about a child who is born with Klinefelter’s syndrome. This is a condition where the person inherits an extra X chromosome. Usually boys have an X and a Y while girls have two X chromosomes. A person with Klinefelter’s syndrome therefore has both male and...

In a world of fast paced movies, Bombón: El Perro is like a breath of fresh air. There’s no villains in the movie, and dare we say that there’s no hero either. There’s a main cast which is a man and a dog but the movie does not seem...

Once again a superb movie by Fabián Bielinsky, and although very much different from his earlier creation, Nine Queens, has his unmistakable touch. Bielinsky has a talent for psychological thrillers and his ability to create suspense literally out of nowhere and out of the most common of situations is...

Burnt Money (Plata Quemada) is an action thriller and a love story, but what is unique about this movie is that the love story is between two men. The main characters in the movie are robbers, but also lovers. This makes them closer and brings an amount of trust...

The Method is one of those weird movies that leave you feeling weird. The story is a very uncommon one, about a group of people who are interviewed together with one person being left at the end to take the top spot in a large corporation. There are 7...

The movie “The Motorcycle Diaries” is an adaptation from the biography of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the famous (or infamous) Cuban revolutionary. It follows the early life of Guevara when he took a road trip through South America on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado and his experiences along...